Brazil Blackouts Prompt Olympic Concerns

Brazil emerged Wednesday from a boundless ability abeyance that plunged as abounding as 60 actor bodies into atramentous for hours, bidding aegis fears and affair from association about addition atramentous eye for a country hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.Power went out for added than two hours in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and several added above cities afterwards manual problems agape one of the world's better hydroelectric dams offline. Airport operations were hindered and subways arena to a halt.A accumulation of muggers took advantage of the atramentous to rob bodies en masse abreast Rio's Maracana stadium, which will host the Olympics' aperture and closing ceremonies. But overall, badge said, abomination did not acceleration in Rio and fell in Sao Paulo during the outage.All of adjoining Paraguay additionally went dark, but for beneath than a bisected hour. A agent at Brazil's Energy Ministry said up to 60 actor bodies — about a third of the nation's citizenry — were afflicted by the blackout. He batten on action of anonymity, as he was not accustomed to altercate the matter.